Chapter 63 Patrol
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After drinking and eating, the soldiers fell asleep on the beach in the sea breeze facing the sunset. Qin Chuan was one of them. He was nervous for a long time on the battlefield and was tired. He suddenly felt relieved and soon made his eyelids fight. So he simply spread the rain poncho around the bonfire and covered it with a marching quilt and then fell asleep.
Later Qin Chuan realized that it was very dangerous for them to do this... The pleasure of the beach vacation made them almost forget that this was a battlefield, and the enemy would ignore whether they were on vacation, especially the beach had a bonfire that could be their target...
While the soldiers were sleeping soundly, a harsh roar suddenly came from the sky, and then a shell exploded on the beach. The sea water and Yu Ni rushed towards the soldiers like rainstorms, and immediately woke the soldiers up.
Qin Chuan woke up and was stunned for a while because he dreamed that he was back to modern times and was playing on the beach, so he didn't understand what was going on.
Most of the other soldiers were in this situation. Werner was quick to use. He picked up the engineer's shovel and shoveled the sand a few times and put out the bonfire.
There were a few more whistling shells in the dark, and several shells exploded nearby, but fortunately they did not hit the soldiers' gathering place.
Then the sound of gunfire sounded...but these shells hit the German defense line outside the city.
"They start attacking!" Bazel reacted and shouted at the soldiers: "All up, the holiday is over!"
The soldiers all knew what Bazer meant. Although the German army captured Tobrook, and Tobrook also had a strong defense line that was rare in the desert, the problem was that the German army was insufficient... more than a thousand people defended the 30-mile defense line, and the average one was only 33 soldiers defended by a mile. Moreover, the German army also had to ensure the safety of the Port of Tobrook and the warehouse supplies.
Therefore, of course, the German army had to use every soldier, and even each soldier had to take on the task that could only be completed by a few people, so the holiday was of course ruined.
Amid the soldiers cursed at the British army, Bazer hurried back to the port with his team.
There were already cars coming and going at the port, and German soldiers were everywhere climbing onto the car like firefighting and heading to the defense line. Colonel Slein took an armored vehicle by the troops. When he saw Bazer and others shouting in the Mercedes-Benz car, "Captain, the defense of the port is handed over to you. You must ensure its safety, especially the supplies in the warehouse..."
"Yes, Colonel!" Bazel simply responded.
As the roar of cars gradually faded away, only Bazer and others were left facing the whistling sea breeze in the empty port.
"This is a good errand, isn't it?" Werner said. "We seem to be lucky!"
The soldiers knew what Werner meant, ports and supplies... that was at the core of Tobrook. If the enemy could fight here, it would almost mean that the entire line of defense defended by the German army had collapsed.
So, they can be regarded as the safest in the First Infantry Regiment anyway.
"We have always been lucky, aren't we?" the baker said and looked at Qin Chuan.
"Don't take it lightly, our mission is not easy!" Bazer said and walked towards the port dispatch room that was the command center before.
There Bazer found several maps, which were obviously left by Colonel Slain... This also shows that Colonel Slain was very hasty when he left, and he did not expect the British army to launch an attack at night.
"Look at this!" Bazel pointed to the map and said, "We have eight warehouses to defend, they are here, here, and here..."
Then Bazer allocated the defense of the warehouse, and each squad was responsible for one warehouse, and the remaining people were used as mobile troops or patrol troops.
Qin Chuan's squad was responsible for patrol, that is, he lined up and walked around with guns to prevent underground organizations from causing damage.
Most of the underground organizations are Libyans. As the saying goes, there is resistance wherever there is oppression. Italian colonization of Libya will naturally arouse hatred by some Libyans.
But these armed forces are very weak and unsystematic... The reason is that many people in Libya at this time have no idea of a country. They don’t care who occupy or rule Libya. They only have tribes in their eyes. As long as they do not harm their tribe's interests, they will be treated as "nothing business". Even if they give these tribes a little benefit... they will work hard for you.
Therefore, those tribes that would become underground organizations either had a grudge against them during the colonization process, or were bribed by the British army.
The equipment of these underground organizations is often very backward, and many people even use fire guns for hunting. Therefore, although the German troops stationed in the port only have one infantry company, they are still full of confidence.
While leading the team through a bungalow, Qin Chuan unexpectedly found two unrecognizable German soldiers standing at the door with guns.
"Who is locked inside?" Qin Chuan asked.
"They are crew members of the cruise ship, Sgt.!" The guard replied: "The Colonel asked us to look at them, maybe we will use it!"
Qin Chuan nodded.
Colonel Slein's idea was right, Tobrook was a port, and several large cruise ships were seized... These cruise ships could be used as transport ships between Italy and Libya.
Qin Chuan led the troops to continue walking forward, taking out the map while walking, and remembering the location here under the stars.
"Sergeant!" Werner asked behind him: "Do you think our troops can block the British attack?"
Qin Chuan heard the sound of gunfire from outside the city and replied: "I think they can!"
"Why?" Werner was a little curious.
"The British seem to have made a mistake!" Qin Chuan stopped and looked at the darkness where gunfire sounds kept coming from afar and said: "Listen to those gunfires, they seem to spread their troops across the entire line of defense and launch an attack at the same time!"
"I think their approach is very clever!" Werner expressed his confusion: "Because they have much more troops than us, this dispersed attack can make our originally small troops more scattered!"
"What you said may be reasonable!" Qin Chuan said: "But you have not considered... Many positions in the defense line do not actually require much troops to defend, because there are a large number of barbed wire and mines there, and we only need to arrange a few machine guns to prevent the British army from advancing. I think Colonel Slain did exactly that, so that the troops can be concentrated, and cars and armored vehicles can enable them to quickly get to wherever they need reinforcements!"
Werner couldn't help but realize: "Mobile defense!"
Chapter completed!